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Russian Foreign Policy under Dmitry Medvedev’s Presidency (2008-2012)

CESRAN Int.29 April 20154 May 2015

Summary Putin’s Russia (2000-2008) not only established internal stability, following the difficult and painful transition of the 1990’s onwards, but recovered economically, bolstered by a rapid increase in revenues from...

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Ukraine Analysis: A Deal Which Is “Neither Breakthrough Nor Disaster”

CESRAN Int.13 February 201524 August 2017

After all night talks in the Belarusian capital Minsk, the outcomes of the four party talks in the so-called Normandy format (Ukraine, Russia, France, and Germany) have neither brought a major breakthrough or a...

CESRAN Blog Russia and Eurasia

What’s The EEU And What Are Its Chances?

CESRAN Int.3 January 20153 January 2015

Five years ago, Moscow had every reason to feel secure about its neighborhood. Ally Kazakhstan was settling in as the first post-Soviet state to chair the Organization for Security and...

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Putin’s Eurasian Union: Geopolitical Repositioning

CESRAN Int.1 April 20148 August 2015

On 24th of September 2011, during the United Russia congress in Moscow Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ended all the speculations on his candidacy for the Presidency of Russia. Putin...